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Attackers Use Passkey Phishing to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts and Exfiltrate Data
8+ hour, 16+ min ago (734+ words) Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud environments. Evidence indicates that the operators behind the campaign…...
ThreatsDay: 200 Android Flaws, Browser-Built Phishing, 119K Scam Shops + 23 More Stories
3+ day, 27+ min ago (271+ words) A lot of this week’s security news has the same awkward answer to one question: “Why was that allowed to work?” An extension asks for access and takes too much. A trusted service becomes part of a phishing chain. An…...
PaperCut Attacker Uses Hundreds of AI Agents to Compromise 440+ Instances
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (772+ words) A suspected Russian-speaking cyber actor has been attributed to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to devise exploits targeting a recently disclosed pair of security flaws in PaperCut NG/MF and break into hundreds of instances. According to independent reports…...
Gigabud Creates Android Work Profiles to Hide From Banking App Malware Checks
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (921+ words) A work profile is a separate space that Android typically reserves for employer apps, and what's inside it is kept separate from everything in the personal space. That split hides the trojan from the banking app's own malware checks, Group-IB…...
U.S. Disrupts Xinbi Guarantee Scam Marketplace, Freezes $52.8 Million in Crypto
4+ day ago (835+ words) "Approximately $52 million of cryptocurrency involved in scam money laundering was restrained in one day, bringing the total restrained by the Scam Center Strike Force to approximately $938 million," DoJ said. In tandem, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)…...
Alby Hub Critical Flaw Could Let Attackers Take Over Internet-Exposed Bitcoin Wallets
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (798+ words) Bitcoin wallet company Alby has warned of a critical flaw in Alby Hub that could have let an attacker take over a wallet and send its funds, but only where the owner had made the Hub reachable from the internet....
F5 BIG-IP APM Malware Injects a PHP Web Shell Into Memory, Evading Disk Scans
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (887+ words) Malware linked to break-ins at F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager appliances hides a PHP web shell in memory instead of in a file on disk, Sophos said in an analysis published on September 7. When Apache loads any of the three appliances…...
Researcher Drops New Microsoft Defender PoC Showing ShieldBreak Patch Can Be Bypassed
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (356+ words) The security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse has dropped a proof-of-concept (PoC) for yet another zero-day in Microsoft Defender. The vulnerability, codenamed ShieldCrash, is assessed to be a patch bypass for CVE-2026-69414 (CVSS score: 7.8), also called ShieldBreak, which the researcher…...
Slim Spider Steals Crypto Custody Secrets From Brazilian Financial Institution
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (686+ words) A previously undocumented financially motivated threat actor has been linked to attacks targeting Brazilian financial institutions since at least March 2026. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is tracking the Brazil-based activity cluster under the name Slim Spider. Slim Spider has been observed orchestrating…...
WeChat Zero-Click Worm Took Over Accounts on iPhone and Android via Incoming Calls
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (733+ words) Researchers at the security firm Calif have built a worm that takes over a WeChat account via an incoming call and demonstrated it spreading among three test phones. The person being called does not have to answer or touch their…...